My New Website what do yall GEEKs think

Kaiser37 said:
I am not sure if I found the right prices, but for your presentation your prices seem low.
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Yeah I dont think you could afford to live around here with those prices. What you are charging 30$ costs $150+ around here.
 
Danathin said:
Like most others have said, spell check is a must. Grammar check as well, maybe just have someone go through and edit it. When you are trying to appeal to those driving higher class cars, their intelligence is "normally" higher as well so they may be turned off by something as minor as spelling and grammar errors. Other than that the site is well put together, and easy to navigate. I would maybe add some before and afters unless maybe I just missed them.
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I can't agree with this more. I was looking for somebody to tune my car after I put the turbo on. I checked out a few places and came across a local guy who I had heard about before. I had heard some good and some bad, but I figured why not check it out. His homepage had 3 spelling mistakes and I didn't go farther than that. A car for some people (such as people that want to have their car detailed) is more than a car. It's more important than that. My first thought to his website was why should I trust this guy with my car that I have put time and money into when he can't take the extra few minutes to proofread?

I'm not trying to criticize by any means, but I think you should rework your FYI section. The layout (such as pictures in the middle of text lines) and text highlighting seem unprofessional in my opinion. And the pictures of opticoat and i forget what else don't even have anything with them. The FYI section was just very confusing.
 
rustytruck said:
As a business owner I see everything wrong with it. Would auto werx detailing hire a kid to help detail cars that takes photos of the cars he works on then builds a website AAA detailing then displays those photos as if they were done by AAA detailing? All this as he's trying to go after the same customers as you? I think not. Why should he do that to the dealer he works for. If he posts photos of all BMW and Benz then he gives the false impression that everyone in town is going to him when in reality they never met him, they never did business with him and they surely never had their car detailed by luxury auto spa. So whey the heck is their car on luxury spas website? On my site all the cars were done by Afterglow detailing not by joe smith or whoever was helping that day. It was Afterglows customer and Afterglow has obtained from the owner of the car permission to use the pictures in all promotional material including my website. So yea I guess it is a big deal. To me anyway.
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I certainly understand your perspective and you make some valid points. I guess it would depend on how the pictures were represented on the website. If they were let's say 50/50 shots of paint correction for example with no other identifiable information about the vehicle or the owner I still see no problem in it. I'm just talking about showing what kind of work you are capable of. Now, if there were captions next to each photo with stuff like "another satisfied customer of XYZ Detailing" then that would be misrepresentation because they weren't actually XYZ Detailing's customer.
 
rustytruck said:
Don't post pictures of cars that you did at work. Those are not your customers those are customers of the dealer you work at. They paid the dealer to clean their car and the dealer paid you. You need to do some cars on the side then post it as your work. That means on your own time with your own tools and chemicals using your own system.
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You say the Dealer cars, yeah but who in the hell is putting the elbow grease on them, not really focused on the customer part work is work no matter when and where you do it. And if you know any thing about dealer equipment and chemicals then you would know its primarly the basic run of the mill chemical, me myself use that as my testing platform of autogeek chemicals on these luxury cars, for me personally no i wouldn't be able to put my hands and test outside of the dealer at this moment. klasse, bmw nano wax liquid pinnacle, the products i have on my site i have tested, in my own luxury test field, " the dealer".

Now i have customer that come to the dealer because of me, like i said before, this brought forth more motivation for me to start and legalize a mobile detail for myself to get paid.

But your Work is work, and my Work speaks for it self, dealer, side, your yard, my yard etc............:Picture:
 
They're right though. You shouldn't use pictures of a customer's car that you haven't asked an okay for.

My biggest critique would to use higher quality pictures for the images in the background. Right now they're really grainy and and you can see some of the pixels because the images were too small to fill the space without stretching them. It looks pretty goofy when you're trying to show the fine work of a perfect detail.

Outside of that, I commend you for using a dark background and white text. So many people won't do it because it's different, but it's better on a viewer's eyes!

Reading more of other people's responses, I have to agree with the FYI page needing reworked. Text shouldn't wrap into images and the highlighted text looks bad. There is a lot to say for a page that is spaced and organized correctly.
 
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rustytruck said:
As a business owner I see everything wrong with it. Would auto werx detailing hire a kid to help detail cars that takes photos of the cars he works on then builds a website AAA detailing then displays those photos as if they were done by AAA detailing? All this as he's trying to go after the same customers as you? I think not. Why should he do that to the dealer he works for. If he posts photos of all BMW and Benz then he gives the false impression that everyone in town is going to him when in reality they never met him, they never did business with him and they surely never had their car detailed by luxury auto spa. So whey the heck is their car on luxury spas website? On my site all the cars were done by Afterglow detailing not by joe smith or whoever was helping that day. It was Afterglows customer and Afterglow has obtained from the owner of the car permission to use the pictures in all promotional material including my website. So yea I guess it is a big deal. To me anyway.
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starting to think your over there drinking HaterAde

Anyway, if the same person cleans your car but is hired by someonelse at that time, then eventually cleans your car again but this time the "Business is under a different name - Autospa" same person different circumstances and the customer gets the same if not better quality and treatment.....

Pictures, due to the world we live in your picture is taken daily and i dont hear you meowing, store cameras, work, park, other people cell ph and etc

MY Focus nor my intention is to steal dealer customer, if it was kia , honda, chevy dont matter i just like to take pics or videos as a hobbie, then it turned into well hey i got some material of my work. It just so happens that their All Bmw and Mercedes, can't change the hand i Was dealt Rusty!:nomore::nomore:

and i repeat work is work, no matter if i put on a afterglow tshirt, autospa, autogeek, etc, the clothes nor title makes the man or produces the Work.......Luxury Auto SpaIm the MAN
 
Nicholas@Autowerx said:
I certainly understand your perspective and you make some valid points. I guess it would depend on how the pictures were represented on the website. If they were let's say 50/50 shots of paint correction for example with no other identifiable information about the vehicle or the owner I still see no problem in it. I'm just talking about showing what kind of work you are capable of. Now, if there were captions next to each photo with stuff like "another satisfied customer of XYZ Detailing" then that would be misrepresentation because they weren't actually XYZ Detailing's customer.
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Now i agree with you fully, I am just showing you my work. when post before and after's , again just showing you results.

Now if i say another customer satisfied customer of LAS, then me and that customer allready know whats going on and their waiting on me to fully get up and running, and i have permission.

I think alot of guys have me confused, you gents are well off into the game, I;m just coming off the bench taking my breakaway pants off trying to get into the game, I am by no way a no it all or arrogant.

A man has to eat, if who ever you work for in life and your good, loyal and have a passion for what you do, and your not eating.....It's Not what would Jesus do, it what would you do?
 
The first thing I noticed is BMW and Mercedes which I imagine since Albany is not very big those are probably the only "luxury car" dealers. I would think you would want to start Luxury-AutoSpa to give owners of all cars the best detailing service. I don't consider a Ford F-250 King Ranch to be a luxury vehicle (no offense to F250 owners) but it costs more than a BMW 328 sedan.
 
I don't hate anyone. I don't know you or anyone on this site personally. You made a thread asking everyone to check out your site which I did. And provide feedback which I did. I noticed you had no photo gallery which is important. I then tried to explain to you it would be better to do some cars on your own than to use photos of customers cars that had brought their cars to the dealer to be cleaned. Thoses photos should be on the dealer site. I don't want to bicker with you about the photos. Your entitled to your opinion. When you do work as an employee or under contract your doing it on behalf of whom ever hired you. It sounds like your really good at detailing cars but may need to learn a little more how the business world works.
 
No beef here either Rusty i respect your opinion and i did ask. For me at this current moment I was only using what was available, now believe me when i am totally off the ground, all you will see is mine with my setup, the public does'nt even know about my site yet, you guy's are the first to see.Finally coming from just a thought to actually making things come true.

Anyway thanks for the advice everyone....p.s photo album coming soon
 
I am a photographer and was told by some others who have been in the business longer than me that when listing your services list the more expensive ones first. Customers are more likely to buy them more if they are in the beginning. Also give them catchy names like Silver, Gold or Platinum. I gets their attention more.
 
"guaranteed" is spelled wrong under "luxury auto spa treatments tab". If it was my site, I'd include more pics of cars you've done or before/afters rather than the animated pics, but it still looks good the way it is!
 
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